[Air-L] Postdoc: 1-year position studying social media posts

[Raymond Drainville]

Located at the University of Waterloo, Canada, Project Figleaf is
looking for an experienced social media researcher to join us as a
postdoc starting 1 October 2022. The postdoc will help collect and
filter social media data regarding racist and conspiracist discourse.
The position lasts for one year and comes with a salary of CAD$70,000,
money for conference travel, and hardware/software purchases.

What is Project Figleaf? What is a Figleaf?
The Project is an interdisciplinary venture between philosophy and
social media studies. It focuses on "figleaves"—a snippet of
communication (textual or visual) that serves to mitigate the
violation of social norms when relaying racist or conspiracist
content, making the content more palatable to undecided readers. The
Project aims to identify common figleaf terms in both racist and
conspiracist discourse, the venues/forums where they are used, and the
comparative success of figleaves to spread racist or conspiracist
content.

More Information
More information about the position, its requirements, and how to
apply may be found here:
https://projectfigleaf.org/postdoctoral-position-with-project-figleaf/.
For more about the Project and figleaves, please see the main page:
https://projectfigleaf.org/. Questions about the postdoc may be
forwarded to Ray Drainville (ray.drainville at uwaterloo.ca), but please
send applications as per the instructions on the application page
above.